This week we examine the tension between legality and necessity through three constitutional and commercial law decisions—Thorington v Smith (1869), Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke (1969), and Ontario Bank v Lightbody (1834)—to better understand how money, payment, and...
Legal Precedents Against Classifying Crypto as Traditional Property While many jurisdictions have begun to recognize cryptocurrencies as a form of property, there exists a significant body of case law that has reached contrary conclusions. This...
The Problems with NSW’s Generative AI Practice Note The NSW Chief Justice has recently issued SC Gen 23 – Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (“Gen AI”). However, the main problem with this Practice Note becomes apparent through a simple...
Can Chat GPT Replace Adrian’s Poetry? One of the amusing uses of LLMs like Chat GPT is to write in another person’s style. This includes writing poetry. Adrian has put his effort into drafting a Christmas tax poem. In considerably less time, ChatGPT drafted its...
Fischer V Nemeske: The Dissenting Judgements – Part 3 Kiefel J’s Dissent This is the final part of my three part series commenting on Fischer V Nemeske, specifically the dissenting judgements. Kiefel J considered that for the capital to be applied,...
Analysis of Fischer v Nemeske: Gageler J’s Judgement Continuing on from part one of the discussion on Fischer v Nemeske, in which the conventional view of present entitlement and the controversial majority judgement of French CJ and Bell was...
